Plastic : A Toxic Love Story

Plastic constructed the fashionable world. The place would we be with out bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? However a century into our love affair with plastic, we’re beginning to notice it’s not such a wholesome relationship. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach dangerous chemical substances, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. As journalist Susan Freinkel factors out on this partaking and eye-opening e book, we’re nearing a disaster level. We’ve produced as a lot plastic prior to now decade as we did in all the twentieth century. We’re drowning within the stuff, and we have to begin making some arduous decisions. Freinkel provides us the instruments we’d like with a mix of vigorous anecdotes and evaluation. She combs by way of scientific research and financial information, reporting from China and throughout the US to evaluate the actual impression of plastic on our lives. She tells her story by way of eight acquainted plastic objects: comb, chair, Frisbee, IV bag, disposable lighter, grocery bag, soda bottle, and bank card. Her conclusion: we can’t keep on our plastic-paved path. And we don’t need to. Plastic factors the best way towards a brand new inventive partnership with the fabric we like to hate however can’t appear to stay with out.